Darktown Strutters
Cinefamilia!
Our March calendar is now online for your perusal. Aside from the festivals I already told you about, we got a kick-ass Bronson fest, some Les Blank food-films, Busby Berkeley dreams, and America’s sweetheart—Mary Pickford. But I must digress:
I’ve been trying to tell people how almost exhaustingly weird Darktown Strutters (playing this Saturday) is. Written by George Armitage (cult director of Miami Blues & Grosse Pointe Blank), directed by William Witney (a 70-something year old former studio man who worked on Tex Ritter Westerns in the 40’s), and cartoonishly production designed by Jack Fisk (you know, the guy who did Phantom of the Paradise & Mulholland Drive), this is easily the most jaw-dropping thing I’ve ever seen. I mean your jaw will drop. I’m personally gonna stand near the front of the theatre, so I can watch a whole crowd full of jaws collectively drop. But I can’t possibly communicate it to you in text. You know the cliché a picture is worth a thousand words? Well, I could try and describe an evil Colonel Sanders in a bunny suit, but what’s the point? So we put together this little “trailer”.
And I promise you: what you see is what you get:
Our March calendar is now online for your perusal. Aside from the festivals I already told you about, we got a kick-ass Bronson fest, some Les Blank food-films, Busby Berkeley dreams, and America’s sweetheart—Mary Pickford. But I must digress:
I’ve been trying to tell people how almost exhaustingly weird Darktown Strutters (playing this Saturday) is. Written by George Armitage (cult director of Miami Blues & Grosse Pointe Blank), directed by William Witney (a 70-something year old former studio man who worked on Tex Ritter Westerns in the 40’s), and cartoonishly production designed by Jack Fisk (you know, the guy who did Phantom of the Paradise & Mulholland Drive), this is easily the most jaw-dropping thing I’ve ever seen. I mean your jaw will drop. I’m personally gonna stand near the front of the theatre, so I can watch a whole crowd full of jaws collectively drop. But I can’t possibly communicate it to you in text. You know the cliché a picture is worth a thousand words? Well, I could try and describe an evil Colonel Sanders in a bunny suit, but what’s the point? So we put together this little “trailer”.
And I promise you: what you see is what you get:
posted by The Cinefamily at
2:40 PM
3 Comments:
You guys just keep the hits comin'. Can't wait for Darktown Strutters! Late Saturday nights at the Cinefamily have saved my dwindling sanity and I can't thank you maniacs enough.
I eagerly await the moment my schedule & my checking account align to allow me to attend a screening. Soon.
Wish I'd been hip to you guys back then; I love this movie and would move heaven and earth to attend a screening.
--Marshall
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